log?

[Knute Johnson]

On 10/6/2011 8:42 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 10/6/2011 8:38 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> I just rebuilt my mail server with a new installation of 11.04 server
>>> and I'm missing the user.log that I used to get. I have a script
>>> that uses the logger command to write messages to the log but it
>>> doesn't work on the new server. I must not have some program
>>> installed that I had before. Anybody know what it is or what is
>>> used now?
>>
>> Which log file do you check? If it is /var/log/messages, this may be the
>> explanation - in a recent thread on Kubuntu-users Mark Fraser wrote:
>>
>> | /var/log/messages has been disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 onwards,
>> | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/762505
>> | explains why.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>
> I don't have a /var/log/messages file. When I was running 10.04LTS it
> logged to /var/log/user.log. I don't have that file either in 11.04.
> I've looked in all the files in /var/log and don't see data from the
> logger command.
>
> Thanks,
>

I found it, it's showing up in /var/log/syslog.  I don't know why I 
didn't see it there before and I still don't know where 
/var/log/user.log went.

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson